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The Future of Agriculture: Challenges, Threats, Barriers and Opportunities – Banff 2018
Posted in: Pork Insight Articles, Production by student on July 26, 2018
Author: Steven D. Savage
Reference: Banff Pork Seminar Proceedings 2018
Summary:
Challenges:
- Global demand for food will be increasing significantly
- Declining expertise
- Social license challenges: the concept that focuses on how societal pressures, permissions and perceptions influence the ability of a give industry to do what they need to do to succeed
How is social license posing a challenge
- Direct involvement is decreased
- Decreasing public investment
- Little understanding of the influence of science based regulation on safety and sustainability of agricultural systems
- Some regional regulations are highly influenced by politics
- Widespread mistrust in the food system
- Subset of food companies that use aggressive, negative and inaccurate descriptions of their competitors
Opportunities:
- Communications; ability to advocate for agriculture and “debunk” myths
- Confrontation
- Competition